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- Brooklyn, NY, USA • Jun 09, 2023
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I am a student at Hunter College in NYC. Via my school email, I had been sent a blank email with an attachment titled Ukrainians of Colorado - Request for Assistance. It was an email from a Doctor Elizabeth Davis who claimed to be working with disabled Ukrainian children in a foster home in Colorado. She was looking for a personal assistant. Since this was sent to my school email, I had assumed it was safe/legit as I sometimes receive emails from teachers requesting assistance, or emails about work-study programs. I sent her my resume via my personal email. She had sent a photocopy of her Colorado driver's ID which had this correct name on it. I was requested to send my ID as well. After I had got the personal assistant job, she had explained that I would receive $400 a week plus money for me to purchase the necessary materials to be sent to these foster home kids. She explained that a list of items needed to be purchased would be sent. But first an email including a virtual check from a random food bank corporation in FL was sent to me via email for $4500. I printed the check out, then mobile deposited it into my bank account. After this, I was to keep $400 for myself. Originally I was told that I could make the purchases via online services such as Amazon, Walmart, etc., but then the story changed once I had the money in my account. I said "let me make the purchases online, not in-store" and their reasoning for no longer accepting online purchases was because they needed pictures of physical receipts. When asking for the list of items to shop for at a CVS, I was told that I would have to first make a $2,000 Zelle transfer to the supposed secretary in

charge at the foster home. The reasoning explained, again, did not add up. The remainder of the amount was to be used on CVS

items. I refused to send the money. I said my Zelle was not working. I was then given a bank account and routing number to a bank in CA to send the money to, name being: Thuy Quach. There were multiple phone calls made to me and a bombardment of texts requesting that I send the money/asking if I sent the money yet. After refusing consistently, I was then told to go to CVS and

buy 'cards'. I asked what kind of cards. Get Well cards? Gift cards? Just 'cards' and then a text that said $500x4=$2000, so I'm assuming gift cards. I stopped responding and then the texts continued with the importance of me sending the money to Thuy Quach immediately. I had looked up the IP address of the original email that was sent to my school email, and the name behind the email was Quang Ngo. After I had texted that name to 'Elizabeth Davis' the texts stopped coming. I still have the money in my account and contacted my bank, in which they are going to look into it and hopefully send the money that was deposited into my account to whom it belongs to. It is especially upsetting to me that 1) financially unstable students, like myself, are being targeted and 2) that the issue in Ukraine is being exploited here for this.

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